XPRTNovice

I don't have the time to read all of the stuff you guys have been talking about, but I will offer one piece of anecdotal evidence: my wife. Back in 2008, my wife started having some really, really serious health issues centered around her digestion. She tried EVERYTHING. She saw gastro specialists in two different countries, and EACH ONE told her something conflicting. I won't go into details, but it was bad. Really bad. Like, we thought we'd never be able to have children because her body was shutting down kind of bad. My wife switched to something very similar to the whole 30 you guys were talking about before. She had a complete lifestyle switch, and followed the scdlifestyle.com guidelines. That's how she got involved in that culture of health - one which ecto is pretty much quoting from - and that's how I know viacariously what I know. Once she did that, life changed within 1 month. The stories I've heard from other people are seeing thing like CANCER go away. Parkensons. Chrone's. ADHD/ADD. Outrageous degenerative diseases that don't even seem to have a connection to a diet have totally vanished from people that ascribe to ecto's philosophy. "Mountains of evidence" have been accumulated to attempt to prove very silly things in the past, and ecto's counterargument is pretty effective. Red meat from feedlots just isn't the same as grass fed beef. But, honestly, I don't care. I don't care about studies or statistics or whatever - I have a wife who isn't dead and a new daughter, and I guarantee you that it had everything to do with the diet changes my wife made. Anyway, that's all I'll offer. I've mentioned before that I try not to stress about it all. To me, reading studies by our medical profession is too stressful for me to really care - I have the answer living with me every day because she didn't listen to doctors who told her to eat more bread and that she just had IBS and that she just had to deal with it. edit: Zircon are you doing whole 30? My wife "challenged" me to do it and I might give it a chance for the month of May. Let me know how you feel! I will give you this advice: When my wife changed her diet, about 3-4 days into it she felt awful. They call that "die-off" because your gut flora is re-balancing itself. DON'T GIVE UP. Give it at least 7-10 days before you throw in the towel (and after that long, you won't). And check out scdlifestyle.com - there are soooooo many stories just like yours.

What's your actual budget? The Shure KSM32 is a very versatile mic that will cost you about $300 used ($500 new). If you want dynamic, but you want a GOOD dynamic, look at the Shure SM7b. The mics you list down there are like $50, though you can definitely get sound of them. Presonus makes very good interfaces, though I use a Focusrite Saffirepro14.

Well, alright.

It's a girl (we knew). Her name is Aevalyn, and she makes something like musical noises but she's not picking it up very fast. She still misses the last couple of runs in Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu because she refuses to listen to me about using the full weight of her body on the keyboard.

It happened! I'm a dad

Where do we send final wavs? Esto gaza is done I think

I can't tell in the 10 pages if anyone has mentioned this, but the Final Fantasy VIII battle theme is in 5/4. Also, on the album Creid for Xenogears (not an OST) the Lahan cover switches between 5/4 and 6/8

Dude, did you seriously go spamming people's visitor walls for this? People will listen if you give them time, but they won't listen if you pester. You posted your mix yesterday; be patient.

Where are you at?

Moderation is the fact that they ONLY COME OUT ONCE A YEAR!

Garp (and everyone) I liked your little bit about how studies swap every ten years. That's why MY guidelines are 1.) informed common sense and 2.) low-stress. I eat what I'm pretty sure is healthy because it makes sense. The biological evidence of the damage that grain does to cows is overwhelming (and overwhelmingly ignored). And you're all MUSICIANS. You should KNOW from the time you're six that ALL COWS EAT GRASS (I really hope someone gets that joke). Grains are really hard to make edible, so they're probably really hard to digest. Tomatoes are good for you. You probably shouldn't f*** with the genetic makeup of chickens to make them grow twice as fast, but they live in their own feces and can't lift their heads because their bodies are so broken. That's the informed common sense part. The low-stress part is that I'm not going to get invited to a barbeque and bring my own meat and look like an asshole, or interrogate the host to figure out what he put in the meat or if he used GMO or blah blah blah. Chill out and enjoy a burger. And goddamnit, I'm never going to stop eating Cadbury cream eggs, because I like them and I understand what moderation is. Some people get a lot of enjoyment out of reading 10 articles about nutrition every day. I like to make music and write books, so I don't worry about it as much.

You are OUT OF YOUR MIND.

Congratulations! You've spotted my HIDDEN MESSAGE. No, I have no idea what that is...I'll have to go take a look. The piano sample might actually be clipping. Thanks Rozo!

For me it was a matter of seeing what was tapping my computer out. I saw that I was never using more than 4-5 GB of RAM at any time but my processor was sometimes functioning at max capacity. That showed me where the stovepipe was. Either I wasn't using my resources efficiently (possible) or I needed more resources. KyleJCrib, that CPU you posted is the best thing that can go in my current mobo! Perfect. You saved me a ton of research work and the price was awesome, $85 incl. shipping.

Sweet, thanks for that link! It would be great if I could just swap the CPU and keep the current mobo. And they have a $10 off sale today! Makes it really easy.

Thanks Flex. I think we're good. There are a couple of things I'm nitpicky about and will change before I sub. No worries, that's what this is for! They were good comments and I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

Hey guys, I'm starting to notice as I get into better samples and more complicated tracks that I'm maxing out the "average processing load" in Cubase 7. Here's what I'm working with (last upgraded 2010) 1 x GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard 1 x AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor ADX620WFGIBOX 8GB DDR2 RAM I've got some money to upgrade, so I'm happy to hear suggestions. I'm not much of a gamer on PC, so I don't care about that bit - I'm looking to create a music processing powerhouse. I'm operating on Windows 7 and my sound card is Focusrite Saffire Pro 14. So, do I need to upgrade or do I need to be more efficient with what I have? If upgrading, hit me with your best suggestions. Cheers!

I'm going to start this week running with the vibrams. I'll keep you guys posted. In other news, I'm 3 classes deep into parkour - anyone else in the DC area that wants to come do it with me? Classes can be pricey tho

lol was that my mod review? I love you Flex!

New version on OP! Fixed all timing and string expression issues thanks to much help from youz twoz. https://soundcloud.com/xprtnovice/flight-of-the-dark-owl-v6 Editing the OP as well. Would welcome any comments before I switch to mod review.

I will just give you money if you teach me how to orchestrate Wish my mobo wasn't DDR2 or I'd buy this.

I would say I work in a sort of painters way, but in sections. I get a basic concept down for an A section, then I brainstorm the B section. Then I lay down the basics for the B section and move on to thinking about the next. When I have an ending written, I will then go back and start putting in other ornamentation, counter melodies, harmonies. It sounds structured, but I kind of let the mood take me. If I am getting great ideas for how to thicken section A but I haven't even started brainstorming B yet, I will give A everything I have until the muse goes somewhere else. I always try to do EQing and sends on the fly, though, so that I don't finish a track and realize that I need to do the whole thing again. For my LIVE parts, I always throw down absolute shit first with lots of mistakes and timing issues. Then I copy and paste the tracks and it sounds terrible. When I have the whole piece figured out, then I go lay down clean live parts.

I know what you mean.

Oh man I found that guy a little while ago and he totally dashed my hopes of doing a capella for OCR. I still think I can out-beatbox him though. His JENOVA is really cool too.

Thanks for the rescue move, Argle. I don't know anything about this stuff.